Sustainability
The process of maintaining change in a balanced environment. It's the challenge of our time. To put the definition and diagram into practice, imagine increasing levels of integration. Start with technology choices, the products into which they're integrated, then the business geared to run as a viable economic engine, inside of a larger company that maintains equitable relations with all stakeholders. Individuals then vote via consumption, both wallet and time; those values-driven decisions aggregate up into local communities. Communities comprise states and nations. Ultimately, we've integrated all individuals, value preferences and actions up to our global society. Unfortunately, the state of the planet is unsustainable . The existential planetary problem has been a disaster since ~40 years before Copenhagen, with a brief moment of hope in Paris, then dashed by agent orange. New Zealand is the only country to co...